I'm not a huge fan of very plotty shows. I'm much more of a fan of character-driven stories. — Sam Esmail Copy Share Image
You know, I'm cursed with morals. I was raised a certain way. I wish I wasn't. I wish I was raised by… — Carson Daly Copy Share Image
I've had male executives say that my lead character was unlikable because she slept with a lot of guys. — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
“You need to love the villain as much as you need to love the hero if you’re going to have a great… — Andrew Scott Copy Share Image
I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was doing character films, I would always try to find something to subvert the standard. You know, to play them… — Thomas Jane Copy Share Image
I was molded, spent my time underneath a lot of goo. And then the bits and pieces were sculpted. It took probably… — Brendan Fraser Copy Share Image
Maybe with "Californication" the character was partly based on Rick Moody. I read him and Jay McInerney, the templates for this bad… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
The wacky thing about those bad guys is that you can't count on them to be obvious. They forget to wax their… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions… — L. Sprague de Camp Copy Share Image
The qualities we have do not make us so ridiculous as those which we affect to have. [Fr., On n'est jamais si… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A lot of things you just stumble into: relationships or ways of putting characters opposite one another that really worked. So then… — Christopher Lloyd Copy Share Image
You need to keep everyone wanting more. Every character has so much depth, and there was so much thought that went into… — Ashley Greene Copy Share Image
Words are alive--when I've found a story that I love, I read it again and again, like playing a favorite song over… — Gary Paulsen Copy Share Image
“When a man’s love of finery clouds his moral judgment, that is vanity. When he lets a demanding palate make his moral… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
I'm beginning to feel that no author has the right to tear his characters apart if he doesn't know how, or feel… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Very great personages are not likely to form very just estimates either of others or of themselves; their knowledge of themselves is… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Yuki: "What can I learn from a stupid cat like you? You didn’t even know that Jason isn’t really a bear. He’s… — Natsuki Takaya Copy Share Image
“was a fundamental principle of the Gradgrind philosophy that everything was to be paid for. Nobody was ever on any account to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The "magic if" is a tool invented by Stanislavski, the father of acting craft, is to help an actor make appropriate choices.… — Bruce Miller Copy Share Image